October 2010

OFFICERS

President: Kevin Thomas

(816) 941-8865

President

@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Vice President: Cliff Bell

(816) 582-9442

Vicepresident

@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Secretary: Larry Morse

(913) 764-4879

Secretary

@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Treasurer: Jack Gregg

(913) 287-0808

Treasurer

@kcwoodworkersguild.org

DIRECTORS

Assets: Bill Evans

(816) 228-9048

Assets

@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Communication:

Bill Johnston

(913) 492-6942

Communication

@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Membership:

Diana Rickel

(913) 449-1668

Membership

@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Events:

Chuck Saunders

(816) 729-3793

Events@

kcwoodworkersguild.org

Sponsorship:

Kevin McAndrew

(913) 381-5714

Sponsor

@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Training: Kara Paris

(816) 682-5622

Training

@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Programs: Bob LaDue

(816) 761-7972

Program

@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Additional

Contacts on Website

LEADERSHIP:

Sawdust:

The Presidents Corner

Fall, autumn. That time of the

year when everything starts to

change. There’s a nip in the air

in the mornings. The trees turn

lovely colors right before they

drop every leaf. Then you’re left

to clean up the mess they leave.

To some that is no big deal,

unless you live on a street like

mine.

It’s this time of year that I start

to have dreams of an endless

supply of oak. You see on my

two block long residential street

live about thirty or more mature

pin oak trees. Every one of them

full of leaves in the summer and

every one of them empty in the

fall. As typical with oaks, they

won’t lose their leaves all at

once like a nice maple. No they

spread it out over the whole fall

and winter. I won’t be free of

leaves till the second mowing,

next spring. Oh, and don’t forget

the acorns and the little oak trees

that will come up in the spring,

all over my yard, thanks to for-

getful squirrels.

For the reasons stated above,

oak is one of my favorite woods

to work with. I figure every time

I buy an oak board, I’m help-

ing some poor soul some-

where with his oak tree prob-

lem. Or you can just call it

revenge. My revenge is not

limited to oak trees. There are

also the mighty walnut trees.

Falling walnuts can be down

right dangerous. Just ask my

neighbor’s beagle, from my

childhood. That dog was

proud of himself for treeing

that big, fat squirrel until wal-

nuts came raining down all

around him. He let out a yelp

and high tailed it for the

house. So I figure with every

board foot of walnut I use, I’m

saving some poor hound dog

the pain of a walnut rain.

Back to the season, I find

fall to be one of my favorite

times of the year to get in the

shop and do work. The days

are warm enough that I can

open the big garage door and

let in some fresh air. And the

evenings aren’t so cold that I

have to crank up the heat,

much anyway. This fall I have

plenty to keep me busy. To

start with, NO, I don’t have

that cradle done yet. Kenley

Grace did arrive on September

21st. She was 19 inches long

and a whopping 6 pounds and

10 ounces.

Continued on pg. 2

Next Meeting: Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Program: Bill Robertson, the Miniaturist,

making tools and miniatures 7:00 PM Schutte Lumber

(816) 753-6262

Wood By Design

(913) 962-0159

Woodcraft Supply

(913) 599-2800

Woodline

(800) 472-6950

Metro Hardwoods, Inc.

(816) 373-1710

Cedar Creek Sawmill

(913) 638-1173

America Grinding & Sales

(816) 561-1776

White Crane Images

Neal Shoger

(816) 781-4000

Andre’s Tearoom

5018 Main St

Kansas City, MO 64112

(816-561-6484

Re-View

1235 Saline St

N. Kansas City, MO 64116

Overland Tool, Inc.

7905 Nieman Road, 66214

913-599-4044

PLEASE PATRONIZE OUR SPONSORS WHO OFFER DISCOUNTS UP TO 10% WHEN YOU SHOW YOUR

MEMBERSHIP CARD.

www.MontereyWoods.com

(816) 582-9442

Wood Words The newsletter of the Kansas City Woodworkers Guild

Birdie’s Pub & Grill

8889 W 75th St

Overland Park, KS

Merit Industries

913-371-4441 or

800-856-4441

Eagle Jigs, L.L.C.

14221 Peterson Road

Kansas City, MO 64149

Custom Woods LLC

1-800-BUNKBED

Www.1800bunkbedkc.webs.co

Van-Ton Machine

John Van Goethem 913-631-1094

All six locations

800-371-4527

Strasser Hardware

(816) 236-5858

Volume 26 Issue 9

The Program Starts at 7 PM

Business meeting will be after the Bill Robertson Program

Since she was a bit smaller than most of the babies born in my

family, I figured I gained a couple of extra weeks to build the

cradle. There are a few Christmas presents I hope to make if I

have time. And I’m sure there will be some other little things to

make before the weather gets to cold.

Anyway my advice to all of you is to enjoy the fall. Don’t spend

all your time raking leaves. Get in the shop and enjoy the fall

and all that it brings.

So till next month,

I hope you’re making sawdust.

Kevin

Hand Tool — Special Interest Group

The September meeting of the KCWG Hand Tool SIG centered

around the use of scrapers and their sharpening. We saw a dem-

onstration of a Veritas large scraper plane by Jerry Watson as

well as burnishing tools

from Veritas, Eagle Jigs,

Crown and a home-made

burnisher from Louis

Armstrong. Jerry and

Rob Young demonstrated

sharpening methods for

the card scraper including

the gooseneck

scraper. Several members

practiced their newly found skill at turning a scraper burr with

great success. Material samples such as a walnut inlay in cherry

where the grain of the inlay and the grain of the cherry are at

right angles provided dramatic evidence of the efficiency of a

card scraper over sanding. Remember, if you sand Padauk

inlayed with maple you end up with a less than lovely piece of

Padaple but scrape the inlay down and the colors don't bleed

together! Other sample materials included some curly cherry,

mahogany veneer plywood and cherry with badly done shellac

and polyurethene finishes. The edge of a freshly cut piece of

glass has a very fine burr and can be used as a scraper to re-

move runs and drips from a dried finish. The venerable #80

Stanley Cabi-

net Scraper

was demon-

strated on the

curly cherry

to great ef-

fect. Prop-

erly sharp-

ened, a #80

can save a lot

of work

cleaning up

surfaces prior

to finish-

ing. The #80 is still available new and used cabinet scrapers

are quite common. A good quality replacement blade from

Hock will turn a $3 rummage sale prize into an effective sur-

facing tool.

KC Woodworkers' Guild Hand-tool Special Interest Group

October Meeting

When - Sunday, October 24, 2010 2:30pm

Where - KCWG

What - Carving a Ball and Claw for a Cabriolet Leg

Who - Cal Hobbs

Cal Hobbs will demonstrate the carving of a ball and claw for

a cabriolet leg. Cal will discuss carving techniques, tools,

layout and cabriolet leg design. Open to all members of the

Kansas City Woodworkers' Guild and their guests.

For additional information please contact: Rob Young

rwyoung@ieee.org 785-218-5636

Wood Words Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Page 2

CNC — Special Interest Group

CNC SIG Meeting Minutes October 5th 2010 Tonight was run-what-you-brung. Jim Drummond brought a piece of pine from lumber recovered from a 150 year old barn. Once we got the correct router bits he made a plaque with the barn donors name to present as thanks. Some good looking wood. Brad Swaters brought me the bearing idler that he ma-chined for my MechMate so I have one more new part. Once the Guild Auction is over I need to get back to grind-ing the rails and get some progress. Brad has also started on the safe and proper operation guidelines for use of the CNC Router. Next Month Nov 2nd -- Signs for the tool cabinets nyuck, nyuck, nyuck

For additional information please contact: Chuck Saunders , gooberdog@gmail.com

Scroll Saw — Special Interest Group

Our next scroll saw meeting will take place on October

13th, 2010. From 6:30p.m. to 8:30 P.M. The program

will be how to set up a Scroll saw out of the box to, Scroll

saw Basics, Blades, Speeds, and Feeds and Safety. After

the program we will be cutting test pieces out of 1/8 inch

Baltic Birch Plywood which the Guild saved for us.

For additional information please contact: David A. Roth che-

froth@everstkc.net 913-338-2433

Continued on pg. 5

“Old World Finishing Techniques"

Randy Bohn

The Wood Conservator

Saturday, October 16, 9:00 AM

At the Guild $55.00 for members

Randy Bohn of Randy

Bohn and Associates,

based in Hastings, Minne-

sota, a Conservator in Pri-

vate Practice, who special-

izes in "Old World Tech-

niques" as well as new tech-

nology, to restore and pre-

serve the integrity of

wooden artifacts. Randy is

well known nationwide by

professionals in the antiques

field. His experience and

expertise in the field takes him across the coun-

try, where he maintains fine collections for muse-

ums, dealers, and private collectors.

Bohn's workshop is full of old furniture. He

works on as many as 48 pieces at a time. He has

an extensive collection of antique tools, and

when he repairs or reconstructs furniture, he uses

the implements of the period because they cre-

ate the same imperfections that characterize

the original furniture.

While Randy is here at our workshop, he will be dis-

cussing:

Finishes though the ages

Past projects

Some of his experiences over the last

30 years.

Demonstrating techniques:

French Polishing,

French Patching

How to touch up and maintain

furniture, both old and new.

Please go the our website

www.kcwoodworkersguild.org/index.html

and use paypal to register.

Wood Words Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Page 3

Don’t Be Late The Program Starts at 7 PM

Business meeting afterwards Program Director Bob Ladue wants you to know there will be a change for this Member Meeting

on October 20

We have changed the program a bit.

Bill Robertson

the Miniaturist will be giving his presentation at 7:00 PM.

Bill has given a program to the guild a number of years ago, twice to be exact. He makes tools and miniatures and is a fascinat-ing speaker. Everyone will be amazed. There are a couple of articles on him in Fine Wood-working.

The Presentation will start at

7:00 PM

Kansas City Woodworkers’ Guild Statement of Financial Condition

September 30, 2010

Guild Assets Checking Account $ 4,523 Investments 17,652 Shop Equipment & Tools 28,057 Total $ 50,232 Member Equities $ 50,232

Open Shop Times will be the same each month!

You must have a “Green Name Tag” to work in the

shop, to get this you must take the Orientation

Safety Training class, sign a waiver, and pass all

tests corrected to 100%.

Sunday’s, 10 AM - 4 PM

(1st & 4th only until 2pm for the SIG’s)

2nd & 4th Tuesday’s,9 AM - 3 PM &

6 PM- 9 PM

2nd Saturday, 12 Noon – 4PM

Thursday, After the monthly meeting

6 PM-9 PM Remember to check

the

Calendar for Changes

Orientation Safety Training Monday, October 25, 7:00 PM

Raised Panel Doors Clinic with Don Kruse

Making mortise and tenon joints on the

rails and styles with a floating panel insert. Tuesday, October 19, 6-9 PM.

Workshops Coming in the Winter Nora Hall with her European master wood-

carving methods. December 4 & 5.

Workshops Coming in 2011 Chris Schwarz, Popular Woodworking Edi-

tor & Author. March 19 & 20, 2011.

Doug Stowe, Box maker and Author. June

16-19, 2011.

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Starting September 1

You can join the KC Woodworkers Guild at 40%

off the normal price of a membership (except for

student memberships). We have new member-

ship categories for 2011 and you can join now to

take advantage of the discount for renewing

members for 2011. More workshops, more

classes and a host of other activities are

planned. You won't want to miss out! Looking

forward to seeing you soon!

Wood Words Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Page 4

Membership – Join early and save!

The Guild continues to expand the op-

portunities for you to increase your woodwork-ing knowledge. You will receive a discount for your 2011 membership if you renew

early. We are expanding and changing our membership levels for next year.

Our Woodworker Plus membership in-cludes a 20% discount on Guild activities, seminars, Guild logoed merchandise, and kits

for special projects and with your free green badge, full use of the shop. It offers the best

value for active members with all of the bene-fits of a regular membership. This replaces last year’s Associate membership.

Sawdust Maker provides full use of the shop with your green badge, and all of the

benefits of a regular membership. Regular membership includes lectures

and demonstrations from accomplished and

nationally known woodworkers, mentoring, ex-change of knowledge, free access to video and

print library, monthly newsletter, tool reviews, community service programs, sponsor dis-counts and much more.

Senior memberships are available for those over 65, and include all the benefits of a

regular membership. Student memberships are available for

anyone over 14 who is a full time high school

or college student, and includes all the benefits of a regular membership.

Whether you’re an experienced wood-worker or a novice, there are many opportuni-

ties to learn, practice and stretch your wood-working skills. The breadth and depth of knowledge available within and to Guild mem-

bers is astounding. No matter how specialized your woodworking interest, there are likely

other Guild members who share it and would be glad to talk about it.

KCWG Membership Link

You can pay electronically or print the mem-

bership form and mail a check. Come and make

some sawdust with us! It will be fun!

Diana Rickel, Membership Chair

A Special Message from our Vice President

We need your help, as you know we’re having the fund raising auction with our woodworking friends the Turners November 6, 2010. We would like to raise over $10,000 dollars in this event. We will be using this money to pay our rent for next year. This money will help us to go forward and do a lot in get-ting our shop in shape. As you may know we just brought a new Grizzly 15" with Spiral Cutterhead Planer. We have done a lot since we moved in our current location. Raising this money is not impossible. With your help we as a Guild can pull together and make this happen. The Guild needs your help in the following areas

Making follow up phone calls for auc-

tion items.

Take a good look around your work-

shop & garage and see what you can do-

nate.

Take a look around your friends ga-

rage and see what they can donate.

Woodworking projects you have

crafted for the silent auction.

Help cleaning up the used items ( to

bring more money)

Make cold calls on local merchants

you buy from such as oil changes, movie

tickets, restaurants etc ask for gift certifi-

cates.

Set up in the morning of auction 7am

or before.

Help in clean up after auction.

Help in tracking the bids during the

auction.

Food concessions. If you need help getting your items to the Guild just let me know, there is a guild member close by ready to help. This auction will be open to the public and adver-tised in local newspapers. Currently Wood Craft is announcing the auction on their web site. I hope to have over 300 people attend this auction not count-ing our own members.

See Our Sponsor’s Link

Wood Craft Link to our Auction

Our Guild is only as strong as we, ourselves, make it. Imagine what a difference it would make if each and every one of our members found something they could contribute. Then the suc-cess of our auction would be guaranteed! Please let me know how you can help. Cliff Bell Vice President

Kansas City Woodworkers' Guild

www.kcwoodworkersguild.org

(816) 582-9442 Continued from pg. 2

Shop Smith — Special Interest Group

Next meeting of the Shopsmith Special Interest Group was Sunday, October 3, 2:00 P.M. at the Shop. This meeting featured tune-up, maintenance, lu-brication, and safety. We will also get a look at over $7,000 worth of additional Shopsmith equip-ment donated by member, Pete & Ginny Cuppage to the Shopsmith SIG. Machinery includes a Mark V Model 510 with a Jointer, Scrollsaw & Belt Sander. On separate power stands are a bandsaw and a 12 in Thickness Planer. This is a generous donation for which the Shopsmith SIG most ap-preciates. At future meetings the SIG will, for a portion of the meeting, have a member present a chapter in the 10 Chapter Shopsmith Self Study Course in Woodworking in the Home Workshop. Com-bined, this is a complete course in woodworking.

For additional information please contact: William

Johnston, Director of Communica-

tions, johnston@everestkc.net, 913-492-6942.

Wood Words Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Page 5

The Kansas City Woodworkers’ Guild

in conjunction with the

Kansas City Woodturners Club, at our

Annual Fundraising Auction on

Saturday, November 6, 2010 10AM.

We are accepting donations of all types of woodworking hand

tools, power tools, lumber, educational and related material.

Guild Members that would like to help with this

event please contact coordinators below:

See or Email Vice President Cliff Bell to help with

Donations. Vicepresident@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Yes you can still help, we have lots to do yet!

See or Email Event Director Chuck Saunders to

help with the Auction Event. Events@kcwoodworkersguild.org

Step up & Get involved

Please Note

We are following in the fine American tradition:

We will be accepting credit cards at the auction now,

we will be using PayPal Virtual Terminal.

Bring your Cards

MC, VISA, Discover we will be taking them as payment at the Auction.

We will also accept Cash too,

But proper ID will be required

______________________

Look for More Information on the Nora Hall Wood Carving Workshop coming

in December next month and in your email soon. —————-

We have an additional web Address

WWW.KCWWG.COM Pass it on

Wood Words Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Page 6

September General Meeting Program

The program portion of the meeting was given by Ron

Lomax on the rocking chair he built. A Maloof style

chair was featured on the cover of Fine Woodworking.

Ron’s wife saw the magazine and insisted that Ron

build her one. Even though Ron claimed that it was

“above his ability”, he acquiesced. After much search-

ing, Ron found a reasonably priced set of plans and

patterns from Highland Woodworking, which he used

to profile the walnut chair parts. The sculpting of the

chair, however, is left up to the builder. Ron used a

variety of power tools and hand tools to finalize the

sculpting of the chair. The joinery was quite difficult,

since there are no straight surfaces on the chair, and

the front legs are splayed at a 6 degree angle.

After assembly and final sculpting, Ron sanded to

400 grit, starting at 100 grit then progressing through

120, 150,

180, 220 and

320. He then

used abrasive

pads before

finishing with

a mixture of

tung oil, lin-

seed oil, and

melted bees-

wax.

Ron brought

the chair to

the meeting,

and the fin-

ished result

testified that

this project,

while difficult,

was not

“above his

ability”!

The quote of the night was :

“..But you have all that equipment down-

stairs—you ought to be able to make that

chair!”

Wood Words Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Page 7

September General Meeting Show and Tell

Cliff O’Bryan- Raised sandbox Bill Kuhlman- Re-furbished steering wheel using cotton-wood

Jerry Watson- 2 boxes with trays, made from quilted maple

Wood Words Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Page 8

John Tegeler- Large trivet made with maple and walnut strips

Stan Dirksen- Relief Carving & Painting

Bill Fitzgibbons-Wood carvings

Stan Dirksen- Relief drawing made with basswood

Wood Words Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Page 9

Russ Amos- Trivet made with tile, and custom push sticks

Anthony Harris- Bowl

Jim McCord- Boxes made with maple and padouk, with patterned tops

Anthony Harris- Turnings

Leadership Meetings, 7:00 pm, 9701 W 67th St, Merriam, Kansas 66203 Guild meetings, 7:00 pm 9701 W 67th St, Merriam,

Kansas 66203, enter from west, go downstairs,

come at 6:15 to share and visit.

Calendar

Kansas City Woodworkers Guild

9701 W 67th Street, Suite 100

Merriam, KS 66203

Remember we are taking Credit Cards at the

Auction, Bring your MasterCard & Visa to

get you holiday Shopping started at the Auc-tion.

Coming Programs and events

Workshops

Check back for other exciting workshops coming soon!

European master woodcarving methods with

Nora Hall December 4 & 5.

Popular Woodworking Editor & Author

Chris Schwarz, March 19 & 20, 2011.

Box maker and Author, Doug Stowe

June 16-19, 2011.

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Executive Meetings 2010/2011 Guild Meetings

Please welcome new members to the guild:

KCWG Membership 368 Be sure to meet some our

New to You

members at each meeting

October Meeting: Miniature Woodworking with Bill Robertson.

This Program Starts at 7:00 PM

November Meeting: Coyote Stencil Shop Software

December Meeting:

Banquet and Awards